{"id":231102,"date":"2026-04-23T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-genesis-capital-advises-on-65m-green-bond-for-ivorian-solar-project\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:14:00","slug":"cote-divoire-genesis-capital-advises-on-65m-green-bond-for-ivorian-solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-genesis-capital-advises-on-65m-green-bond-for-ivorian-solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Genesis Capital Advises On $65m Green Bond for Ivorian Solar Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Genesis Capital has advised on a CFA42.65 billion, or $65 million, green bond issuance to finance a solar power project in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. The deal reportedly marks the first green bond in the energy sector on the UMOA regional market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The bond was issued by Poro Power 1 to fund the construction of a 66 MW solar plant in Korhogo. The project is expected to produce about 130 GWh per year, supply electricity to 400000 households and reduce emissions by about 70000 tonnes annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The issuance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604210607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis Capital has advised on a CFA42.65 billion, or $65 million, green bond issuance to finance a solar power project in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. The deal reportedly marks the first green bond in the energy sector on the UMOA regional market. The bond was issued by Poro Power 1 to fund the construction of a 66 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[54238,11423,258,256,10542,6959,5958,6183,6555,5959,51150,12626,6800,1218,257,6504,4631,254],"class_list":["post-231102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-65m","tag-advises","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bond","tag-capital","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-genesis","tag-green","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}